Margaret Archer’s prescient work highlighted vital questions about the possibilities for relationship and “friendship” between humans and AI systems. Though written before the rise of chatbots and other interactive AI, Archer’s late papers reveal remarkable insight into issues surrounding AI… Read More »CfP: The Realist Approach to AI
Guest post by Dr Joanna Smoluk-Stachowska. In order to commemorate Margaret Archer and to show how much her work meant to Polish researchers, the Interfaculty Department of Critical Realism in Szczecin is organising a special seminar “Margaret Archer In Memoriam”… Read More »Polish Critical Realists honour Margaret Archer and publish new journal
We were shocked and saddened to learn of the death yesterday of Margaret Archer. Maggie was the leading sociological advocate of critical realism and the most important figure in establishing the influence of critical realism after its founder, Roy Bhaskar.… Read More »Margaret Archer (1943-2023)
Critical realism ‘provides a way of thinking about the world which draws on social theory to seek explanations for social phenomena, alongside analytical tools to support data collection and data analysis’ (Stutchbury, 2021: 113). Critical realism, and allied theories within… Read More »ECR Critical Realism One Day Event (UK)
Nominations are now open for the 2023 Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize. Nominations should be made to the IACR General Secretary, Catherine Hastings, catherine.hastings@mq.edu.au by 31 May, 2023. The Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize is awarded annually for a book that constitutes, motivates… Read More »Nominations open for Cheryl Frank Prize
=== Watch the video of the book launch on YouTube === Working with Critical Realism: Stories of Methodological Encounters, edited by Alpesh Maisuria and Grant Banfield, has been published by Routledge in our Critical Realism book series. This international and… Read More »Online book launch: Stories from researchers on learning to work with Critical Realism
The 2023 annual conference of the International Association for Critical Realism will be held in Manila, from 9-11 August, with a pre-conference PhD workshop on 7-8 August. The conference ill be hosted by the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.… Read More »Call for papers for IACR 2023 conference
Please join The Philosophy of MetaReality: Creativity, Love and Freedom Reading Group and Teach out (online) First Meeting 0900-1100 GMT on 21st Feb and every two weeks after. PLEASE READ MANIFESTO AND INTRODUCTION (pages vii-xxiii) BEFORE FIRST MEETING All are… Read More »Reading group on Roy Bhaskar’s Philosophy of Metareality
Zoom format – March 25 & 26 , 2023 The Critical Social Ontology Workshop is an interdisciplinary venue for radical thinking about the metaphysics of irreducibly social phenomena. Core members of CSOW are Ruth Groff (Coordinator), Sally Haslanger, Tony Lawson,… Read More »Annual Critical Social Ontology Workshop – Call for Papers
Jin Xue, professor in urban and regional planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, is organizing a one-week PhD course on ‘Critical realism in environment, development and planning studies’ on June 5 – 9, 2023 in the Oslo region… Read More »One week course on critical realism in environment, development and planning studies